History of Sport

The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer'The story of its greatest anti-hero is j...

Every runner's story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Atala...

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, winemakers, therapists, and more Basketbal...

Game Shooting for sporting purposes has taken place in England since the first half of the sixteenth century. David Jones has written a fascinating...

The powerful story of Ken Caminiti, who changed baseball forever as the first player to confess to having used performance-enhancing steroidsIn Pla...

Baseball is much more than the national pastime. It has become an emblem of America itself. From its initial popularity in the mid-nineteenth centu...

In Praise of Famous Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. From D.H. Lawrence's horse Aaron, whose hide ...

The Undisputed Champions of Europe is a trilogy-ending homage to the golden era of the European Cup. A place where the gods of the game battled for...

Old Comiskey Park includes essays and memories covering the history and evolution of the former home of the Chicago White Sox, as well as its impor...

The Surfing Tribe is the definitive story of the history of surfing in Britain. First published in 2009, this second edition has been significantl...

Peak Rock is a celebration of significant developments at the cutting edge of rock climbing in the Peak District, from the day that James W Puttrel...

From the teams inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. The te...

Charlton Athletic Miscellany collects together all the most vital information you never knew you needed to know about the Addicks. In these pages y...

Dublin 4, probably best-known in sporting terms as the spiritual home of Leinster Rugby, has one of the highest densities of diverse sports clubs i...

Wales On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the nation's footballing past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes...

Will lightning ever strike twice? Can David beat Goliath a second time? These questions haunt everyone in the small town of Milan, Indiana, whose b...